Observe, Inc. has launched Kubernetes Explorer, intended to simplify visualising and troubleshooting for cloud native environments. The company’s observability platform's unique tool gives engineers, for the first time, a visual, unified interface for K8s.
Kubernetes Explorer unifies fragmented data across metrics, traces and logs to deliver contextual insights that span applications, the K8s platform, and cloud-native infrastructure. Connected with Observe’s AI Investigator, it can create custom, incident-specific visualisations, acting as a de-facto K8s assistant to support on-call engineers’ troubleshooting efforts.
The company’s agentic AI approach allows Kubernetes Explorer to provide engineers with actionable insights. This enables teams to identify, diagnose and rectify issues faster and more easily than before.
Traditional monitoring tools used by engineering and DevOps teams have failed to give a comprehensive view of application performance. However, the Kubernetes Explorer effectively brings together silo data across metrics, traces, and logs to provide full visibility into all K8s components, making it easier for teams to understand the interdependencies of components.
As a result, it becomes far more straightforward to detect, diagnose and resolve issues much more quickly, retrospectively even. The tool provides the agent with reason through, determine root causes, and offer resolution suggestions.
Observe's mission is to bring comprehensive observational solutions without hidden fees, and Kubernetes Explorer is now available free of charge to all Observe customers.
The fast-growing adoption of K8s and the complexity of K8s and cloud-native environments has significantly increased the need to cut through K8s' complexity. Observe’s tool is a leap forward in observability for cloud-native environments.
Traditional monitoring tools often struggle to integrate fragmented data types. However, Kubernetes Explorer can deliver historical visibility, resource descriptors to provide visibility to the total YAML configuration of K8s resources, and cluster optimisation to provide a visual map of workload distribution across the K8s cluster.
Kubernetes Explorer is expected to be a big win for engineering and DevOps teams as traditional monitoring tools fail to provide a comprehensive view of application performance.
According to Jeremy Burton, CEO of Observe, engineers need actionable insights unavailable with current observability offerings.